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Current Status
Reff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Theodore_Roosevelt_(CVN-71)#Current_Status
On 7 March 2007 the Roosevelt began a nine month Planned Incremental Availability (PIA)
in Norfolk, which will see the addition of RAM missiles among other upgrades.[2]
The ship returned to Naval Station Norfolk on 28 November 2007.[citation needed]
Captain C. Ladd Wheeler became Theodore Roosevelt's eleventh commanding officer
on 11 January 2008.[citation needed]
CVW-8 and Theodore Roosevelt participated in Joint Task Force Exercise 08-4
Operation Brimstone off the coast of North Carolina between 21 July and 31 July 2008.
The British carrier HMS Ark Royal, the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima with associated
units and the Brazilian Navy frigate Greenhalgh (F-46) and the French submarine Améthyste
also participated in the event[3
Life seen from a South African
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